Dominic Nahr Chases the Rwandan Cycling Team

“Shooting a cycling race is like being in a psychedelic dream,” says Dominic Nahr, who photographed the Rwandan cycling team for this week’s story by Philip Gourevitch. To capture the team on race day, Nahr says, involved “weaving around dangerously on a motorbike, hovering as closely as possible next to the cyclists, getting chased away by officials, bolting forward, screeching to a stop, and occasionally face-planting into gravel with a cluster of cameras dangling from my neck. Then running back to my driver, straddling the motorbike, and chasing the rainbow again.” Here’s a look.

During the 2010 Tour of Rwanda, Gasore Hategeka (No. 12) and a teammate pass through a village between Butare and Kigali. The Team Rwanda cyclists are a familiar presence, and villagers often call to them by name.

Photographs by Dominic Nahr/Magnum.

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